Packer&#39;s cutting implement.



I. R. ALLAlS, PACKER'S CUTTING IMPLEMENT. APPLICATION FILED m. 16. 1914.

mama Apr. 27,1915.

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' PACRS CUTTING IMPLEMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr, 2'3, 31593.5.

a nean nea December re, rem. serial no. errata ment (more particularly with cord or twine), which shall aflord a safety-device against injury, of which there is liability, especially to the hands and fingers of the workers, in severing the tying medium where knives, shears, scissors, or the like, are employed for the purpose.

In one establishment known to me, employing several hundred such packers, it is found that the time lost in dressing the more or less slight injuries indicted on the hands and fingers of the workers by the implements they customarily employ for severing the cord or twine, or by breaking the latter with the hands, amounts to the full working day of one employee. Such injuries and the loss of time they cause are wholly obviated by my device, illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which- I Figure 1 shows the implement by a'view presenting the cutting end edgewise; Fig. 2 shows the same but presents a face view of the cutting members; Fig. 3 presents to view the side of the cutting members opposite that shown in Fig. 2, and Fig. i is a section on line 4, Fig. 2.

A. blade 5 provided with a handle 6 expands into a head portion 7, of the preferred generally oval shape illustrated, having a cutting edge at 8 and extending at an angle or being slightly ofi'set relatively to the line of the handle. shown to be formed into a pointed cutter 9 for cutting into strips sheet-material, such as corrugated or other paper board, used in packing merchandise. A curved blade 10 is provided with a cutting edge at 11 to code erate with that on the head 5. The blade 10, in use, extends rigidly from thehead, but it The extremity of this head is is shown to be pivotally connected at 12 with the latter by a set-screw to adapt it to be adusted, for the purpose hereinafter explanned, and guided in its adjustmerit, at a slot 13, by a set-screw it. The blade 10 terminates at its rear end in a button-like head 15 servlng the purposes of guiding the in sertion between the blades of the loose ends of a tied string to be severed and of blunting the end to prevent it from lacerating the person using the implement and of puncturing and tearing a parcel or package which may be accidentally encountered by that end.

To apply the implement in severing the free ends of a cord tied about a package,

' which is the purpose for which I have more particularly devised it, the user holds the ends in one hand and draws the blades 7 and 11 baokwardly across the same to sever them in the apex of the cotiperating cutting edges. As the cutting-edges, adjacent to the apex they form, become dulled with the use, the apex is changed to produce it with fresh sections of the cutting-edges by loosening the set-screws 12 and let, turning the blade 10 to a more or less slight extent on the pivot 12 toward the edge 8, and re-iastening the adjustable bladeto secure it rigidly in its cooperating relation to the head 7.

While the drawing illustrates the implement in the form believed to afford the best embodiment of my invention, ll realize that considerable variation is possible in the de of approximately oval-form slightly odset relatively to the line of the handle and provided with a cutting edge, and a companion blade provided with a cutting edge and pivotally and separably fastened at its outer end to the outer end of the head and extending rearwardly, the said companion blade being provided with a slot in the rear of said pivotal connection, whereby said comcutting edge with a button-like blunting panion blade may be positioned relative to head, and means for holding said blades in said first named blade with its cutting edge adjusted position.

in apex forming relation thereto or in 1ongi-' JOHN R. ALLAIS. tudinally extending relation therewith or In presence 0fbodily separated therefrom, said companion A. G. FISCHER,

blade being provided at the inner end of its F. M. RONDEAU. 

